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David C. Kurfiss (both deceased)
David C. Kurfiss (both deceased)
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'''Marion Gore Kurfiss''' (August 7, 1905 – January 20, 1993)<ref name=findagrave|{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102847143/marion-kurfiss|title=Marion Gore Kurfiss|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 7, 2020}}</ref> was the president of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women from 1975 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lfrw.org/officers.php|title=LFRW Officers|publisher=Louisiana Federation of Republican Women|accessdate=September 7, 2020}}</ref> Born in [[Missouri]] and married in [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], she lived during part of the 1930s in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], but according to the 1940 census, she had relocated to her permanent home in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=2442&h=124802264&indiv=try&o_cvc=Image:OtherRecord|title=1940 Census: Marion Kurfiss|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=September 7, 2020}}</ref>
'''Marion Gore Kurfiss''' (August 7, 1905 – January 20, 1993)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102847143/marion-kurfiss|title=Marion Gore Kurfiss|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 7, 2020}}</ref> was the president of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women from 1975 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lfrw.org/officers.php|title=LFRW Officers|publisher=Louisiana Federation of Republican Women|accessdate=September 7, 2020}}</ref> Born in [[Missouri]] and married in [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], she lived during part of the 1930s in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], but according to the 1940 census, she had relocated to her permanent home in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=2442&h=124802264&indiv=try&o_cvc=Image:OtherRecord|title=1940 Census: Marion Kurfiss|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=September 7, 2020}}</ref>
Kurfiss was the daughter of John M. Gore (1846-1920), who was fifty-nine when she was born, and the former Anna Marie Frietzsche (1871-1926), who died when Marion was twenty-one.<ref name=findagrave/> In 1924, already married to John Frederick Kurfiss, II (1901-1959), she worked at the age of nineteen in the [[Calvin Coolidge]] [[U.S. President|presidential]] campaign sending out mailers though she was too young to vote in the election, held only four years after passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. In Louisiana, she remained a Republican activist so highly regarded that the party named in her honor, the Marion Gore Kurfiss Award to the "best all-around club" of the federation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfrw.org/documents/2019May-LFRWELEPHANTIMENewsletter.pdf|title=Metropolitan Republican Women|publisher=Louisiana Federation of
Kurfiss was the daughter of John M. Gore (1846-1920), who was fifty-nine when she was born, and the former Anna Marie Frietzsche (1871-1926), who died when Marion was twenty-one.<ref name=findagrave/> In 1924, already married to John Frederick Kurfiss, II (1901-1959), she worked at the age of nineteen in the [[Calvin Coolidge]] [[U.S. President|presidential]] campaign sending out mailers though she was too young to vote in the election, held only four years after passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. In Louisiana, she remained a Republican activist so highly regarded that the party named in her honor, the Marion Gore Kurfiss Award to the "best all-around club" of the federation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfrw.org/documents/2019May-LFRWELEPHANTIMENewsletter.pdf|title=Metropolitan Republican Women|publisher=Louisiana Federation of